“As a reporter you tend to seek coherence from your subject or your source - it all needs to add up and make sense. In truth, in reality, there's often a great deal of murkiness and muddiness, confusion and contradiction.” NeedsRealityDealsSubjectsSourceAddConfusionMake SenseContradictionReportersCoherence Author:Amy Waldman
“It is important to see that, in the critique of ideology, only those interventions will work which make sense to the mystified subject itself.” ImportantSubjectsIdeologyMake SenseInterventionCritique Book:Ideology: An Introduction Source: Ideology: An Introduction
“And theories are no more than fictions which help us to make sense of experience and which are subject to disconfirmation when their explanations are no longer adequate.” HelpingFictionSubjectsTheoryMake SenseExplanationAdequate Book:Hopes and impediments: selected essays Source: Hopes and impediments: selected essays
“Stories about mental aberration and oddity only make sense in context. Just how do people live with someone who is peculiar, gifted, strange or alien? It's odd because there's a little part of me that wants to write about exotic, strange bizarre subjects. Instead, I've rather reluctantly realised that what I write about is families.” PeopleWantWritingLittlesStoriesSubjectsStrangeAliensMake SenseOddPeculiarGiftedBizarreRealisedExoticAberrationOddities Author:Mark Haddon
“Freudian psychoanalytical theory is a mythology that answers pretty well to Levi-Strauss's descriptions. It brings some kind of order into incoherence; it, too, hangs together, makes sense, leaves no loose ends, and is never (but never) at a loss for explanation. In a state of bewilderment it may therefore bring comfort and relief.... give its subject a new and deeper understanding of his own condition and of the nature of his relationship to his fellow men. A mythical structure will be built up around him which makes sense and is believable-in, regardless of whether or not it is true.” MenGivingWellsKindMayEndsStatesTogetherOrderUnderstandingNatureLossAnswersRelationshipConditionsSubjectsTheoryComfortBuiltFellowsStructureDeeperMythMythologyMake SenseExplanationReliefDescriptionFellow ManPsychoanalysisBelievableBewildermentDeeper UnderstandingIncoherenceLoose EndsBelievabilityLevi Strauss Author:Peter Medawar
“I wrote about World War II because I didn't understand it. I think that's the reason that historians are drawn to any subject - there's something about it that doesn't make sense. I wanted to work my way through what happened slowly, and look at everything in the order in which it took place.” ThinkingWorldWayLooksWarReasonWantedOrderHappenedSubjectsMy WayMake SenseWar Of The WorldsHistorianWorld War IiWorld War I Author:Nicholson Baker
“The reason for teaching history is not that it changes society, but that it changes pupils; it changes what they see in the world, and how they see it.... To say someone has learnt history is to say something very wide ranging about the way in which he or she is likely to make sense of the world. History offers a way of seeing almost any substantive issue in human affairs, subject to certain procedures and standards, whatever feelings one may have.” WorldWayHumansMayReasonFeelingsCertainIssuesSeeingTeachingSubjectsOffersStandardsAffairWideMake SenseWorld HistoryProceduresPupilsTeaching History Author:Peter Lee
“First of all, I had the desire for that format [silent movie], and then when I was talking to people, I felt that people needed justification. Why are you doing a silent movie? Is it just for your own pleasure? I felt it was not enough for them so I realized I have to choose the subject that will make things easier for them and to tell the story of a silent actor makes sense for doing a silent movie.” PeopleFirstsEnoughStoriesDesireActorsFeltPleasureTalkingSubjectsNeededEasierSilentI RealizedMake SenseJustificationFormatSilent Movies Author:Michel Hazanavicius